The U.S. House has not met for legislative business in more than six weeks, while U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., closed his chamber for the weekend after bipartisan talks failed to ...

While too much shouldn't be made out of off-year elections, the Nov. 4 election will be the first major electoral sign of the political mood and what voters think of the president.

The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday slammed what he called an “ugly Islamophobia” sweeping New York City’s mayoral race on ...

Nearly half a million New Yorkers have cast their ballots in the mayoral election. Here's what the latest polls say.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday (Nov. 1) as the federal food assistance program faced delays and millions of ...